Oh my God, thank you so much for all the compassion and get well wishes you have shown me the past day. I got so touched by it! Learning to take better care of myself and thinking of myself is something I have trouble with, and so do also a lot of other women it seems. But I am learning, step by step. And this past authumn have really given me a wake up call when I see how far I am willing to strech it, allthough my body is begging me to slow down. I hope I will learn slowely, step by step to listen more to my body's distresscall.

These cards are the three cards I made for my last class, the alcoholic ink-class. The thought behind this class is that we shall try out alchoholink on different backgrounds, paper, glass, plastic. Use stencils etc. Hopefully the students will be so fascinated by the alcoholink that they want to try more at home. These cards are made from Rangers alcohol ink. The stencil used on the red card is by Heidi Swapp. (Just love those stencils!!!!!) and the snow crystal stamps used on the blue card is by Penny Black.

And last but not least I just have to show you this picture my six year old daughter took of me and Stein when we where out looking for a Christmas tree.

The weather was awful. Fog all around us and a bitch black night. But we managed to find THE perfect Christmastree! For us that is about 2.5 meters high and with branches all around it and it has got a triangular shape. We where just about to give up, since all the trees we found was either ginormous

or too small. And as we where leaving I saw in the corner of my eye the tree of my dreams! So now it is kept outside, waiting for the 23rd of December when we are going to take it in and decorate it. That is also one of the reasons why we always go treehunting so early. There is still a good tree to be found at that time. Closer to Christmas only the uglybugly ones are left.